Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and a course in Developmental Psychology

This course is an overview of the field of mental retardation and
developmental disabilities. The content includes readings, lecture, and discussion on the
history of the field, the concepts of intelligence and adaptive behavior, classification
systems, litigation on behalf of people with developmental disabilities, etiology,
service-delivery systems, the special case of autism, a review of early intervention programs
and research, language programming, and a review of attention, memory and cognition.
Readings will include behavioral assessment and intervention strategies for people with
developmental disabilities.